Snow

Snow in Maryland makes me giggle. It's so funny, how people around here deal with it.

I flew in Thursday night, and Friday night it started snowing. People all week, apparently, had been talking about the possibility of the snow and what it could do to the area, but I doubt that anyone was really expecting 23 inches of the white stuff. The civilians are bad enough, but everyone else doesn't help anything. The road crews don't know how to clear it off properly. They figure pushing it around and making really tall towers constitutes as clearing... however, if a WHOLE LANE of a high way or a whole turn lane disappears under snow, that's not a very good job. And the news casters who call it the "blizzard of 2009" definitely don't help the whole situation. It technically didn't constitute as a blizzard, look it up. And then the city and county and state officials who call a state of emergency before even all the snow has fallen. That makes the National Guard mobilize... why?! I mean, people cant get out, which is bad if you have a worthwhile profession like a doctor or something, but otherwise, what?

They've already closed school for my brother tomorrow, Tuesday, when the snow happened on Saturday. That's how bad they are at clearing roads. They can't even do it properly after a few days.

And people are always complaining about how cold it is! It was like 35 degrees and I heard people talk about "how cold it is out here!" Bullshit. You want cold, deal with the -5 degrees we were dealing with at school last week. (Granted the game last night was really cold, but anything is cold if you're out in it for ten hours straight).

Fail, Maryland.

I wrote this mainly to get that bitching out of the way, but also to break up all the melancholy and lovey posts that I've been making. Though, I do miss someone terribly, especially after the amazing couple days we spend together before break :)